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ESPN has everything you need to know about the NBA-affiliated Basketball Africa League (BAL) for 2025, from news to scores to interviews from players across the league. South Africa will host the BAL playoffs and final in June 2025, taking over from regular finals host city Kigali, Rwanda, while Morocco has been added as a host nation and Egypt removed. Dates and locations: Kalahari Conference - Rabat, Morocco - April 5-13 Sahara Conference - Dakar, Senegal - April 26 - May 4 Nile Conference - Kigali, Rwanda - May 17-25 Playoffs and finals - Pretoria, South Africa - June 6-14 Fixtures and Scores Teams: Kalahari Conference: Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers, hosts FUS Rabat, Stade Malien of Mali, Al Ittihad of Egypt. Sahara Conference: Defending champion Petro de Luanda (Angola), 2022 champion US Monastir (Tunisia), hosts ASC Ville de Dakar and Cape Verde's Kriol Star. Nile Conference: Hosts APR, Nairobi City Thunder of Kenya, South Africa's MBB, and Libya's Al Ahly Tripoli (the last three all debutants). READ: ESPN's guide to all 12 BAL 2025 teams  News: Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers to tip off Kalahari Conference in Morocco MBB hire former Mavs assistant coach Sam Vincent as HC SA's Pieter Prinsloo hopes for BAL place after REG stint South Africa to host 2025 BAL finals Interviews: Rivers Hoopers coach Odaudu knows less than the Finals is a fail If there is one thing that Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers are clear about going into the 2025 Basketball Africa League season, it is that they want to surpass their performance from 2024, where they finished in third place. Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers don't want another BAL participation trophy After finishing third at the last Basketball Africa League tournament in 2024, Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers want to go at least one better and reach the Final of next year's tournament... perhaps even win it. To get to the 2025 edition, the Kingsmen swept past all opposition to claim their sixth national championship, topping Hoops and Read 71-54 to claim the 2024 NBBF Final 8 title.
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